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The Tempest (Folio 1, 1623)
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The Tempest.
2029Thy brother was a furtherer in the Act,
2031You, brother mine, that entertaine ambition,
2034Would heere haue kill'd your King: I do forgiue thee,
2035Vnnaturall though thou art: Their vnderstanding
2036Begins to swell, and the approching tide
2038That now ly foule, and muddy: not one of them
2039That yet lookes on me, or would know me: Ariell,
2040Fetch me the Hat, and Rapier in my Cell,
2042As I was sometime Millaine: quickly Spirit,
2043Thou shalt ere long be free.
2044 Ariell sings, and helps to attire him.
2046In a Cowslips bell, I lie,
2047There I cowch when Owles doe crie,
2048On the Batts backe I doe flie
2049after Sommer merrily.
2050Merrily, merrily, shall I liue now,
2051Vnder the blossom that hangs on the Bow.
2057Being awake, enforce them to this place;
2058And presently, I pre'thee.
2059Ar. I drinke the aire before me, and returne
2061Gon. All torment, trouble, wonder, and amazement
2062Inhabits heere: some heauenly power guide vs
2063Out of this fearefull Country.
2064Pro. Behold Sir King
2065The wronged Duke of Millaine, Prospero:
2066For more assurance that a liuing Prince
2067Do's now speake to thee, I embrace thy body,
2068And to thee, and thy Company, I bid
2069A hearty welcome.
2072(As late I haue beene) I not know: thy Pulse
2077Thy Dukedome I resigne, and doe entreat
2079Be liuing, and be heere?
2081Let me embrace thine age, whose honor cannot
2083Gonz. Whether this be,
2084Or be not, I'le not sweare.
2087Beleeue things certaine: Wellcome, my friends all,
2088But you, my brace of Lords, were I so minded
2089I heere could plucke his Highnesse frowne vpon you
2091I will tell no tales.
2093Pro. No:
2094For you (most wicked Sir) whom to call brother
2095Would euen infect my mouth, I do forgiue
2096Thy rankest fault; all of them: and require
2097My Dukedome of thee, which, perforce I know
2100Giue vs particulars of thy preseruation,
2103(How sharp the point of this remembrance is)
2104My deere sonne Ferdinand.
2105Pro. I am woe for't, Sir.
2107Saies, it is past her cure.
2108Pro. I rather thinke
2114To make the deere losse, haue I meanes much weaker
2115Then you may call to comfort you; for I
2116Haue lost my daughter.
2117Alo. A daughter?
2118Oh heauens, that they were liuing both in Nalpes
2119The King and Queene there, that they were, I wish
2120My selfe were mudded in that oo-zie bed
2123At this encounter doe so much admire,
2125Their eies doe offices of Truth: Their words
2126Are naturall breath: but howsoeu'r you haue
2128That I am Prospero, and that very Duke
2130Vpon this shore (where you were wrackt) was landed
2131To be the Lord on't: No more yet of this,
2132For 'tis a Chronicle of day by day,
2133Not a relation for a break-fast, nor
2135This Cell's my Court: heere haue I few attendants,
2136And Subiects none abroad: pray you looke in:
2137My Dukedome since you haue giuen me againe,
2138I will requite you with as good a thing,
2139At least bring forth a wonder, to content ye
2140As much, as me my Dukedome.
2141 Here Prospero discouers Ferdinand and Miranda, play-
2142 ing at Chesse.
2145I would not for the world.
2147And I would call it faire play.
2148Alo. If this proue
2150Shall I twice loose.
2152Fer. Though the Seas threaten they are mercifull,
2153I haue curs'd them without cause.
2155Of a glad father, compasse thee about:
2157Mir. O wonder!
2158How many goodly creatures are there heere?
2159How beauteous mankinde is? O braue new world
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